Published in The Astronomical Journal · View the paper (DOI)
The Event Horizon Telescope has achieved the highest resolution ever obtained from Earth, detecting light from the centers of distant galaxies at a frequency of 345 GHz. This allows for multi-color views of the region immediately outside the boundary of cosmic beasts, revealing new properties about supermassive black holes.
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- Event horizon telescope makes highest-resolution black hole detections from Earth Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian · Aug 27, 2024 · first to report
- EHT scientists make highest-resolution observations yet from the surface of Earth ESO · Aug 27, 2024